The beauty of vanilla in Qu Yuan's poems is true.

Qu Yuan's allegorical technique of "Beauty Vanilla" in Lisao has gone far beyond the so-called "Bi Xing" in The Book of Songs. Bixing in The Book of Songs is often just a fragment of a poem, a simple metaphor and association, but Qu Yuan's works have undergone great changes and development. First of all, it began to mix and blend things, feelings and scenery with me. This is not simply comparing things with things, or getting excited by touching things, but combining some characteristics of things with people's thoughts, feelings, personalities and ideals, and combining feelings with things through association and imagination to form a symbol, thus greatly enhancing the artistic tension of poetry. In the long poem Lisao, the poet grasps the rich aesthetic connotations such as lush grass, beautiful trees and flowers, and love between men and women to beautify the image and character of the lyric subject, thus making the style of the whole poem more gorgeous and radiant. Eighteen kinds of herbs appeared in Lisao, mainly including: Hui Hong, Quan, Gracilaria, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Mu Gen, Fenhe, Shen Jiao, Ju, Furong, etc. As "vanilla", these plants have different understandings of its specific meaning in Lisao. For example, "the purity of the past three years is where the public is." Wang Yi thinks that the "numerous prescriptions" here are compared to a group of sages, while Jiang Ji thinks it is compared to a monarch. Another example is, "There is no fragrant grass alone, what is it alone?" The grass Wang Yi here thinks it is a metaphor for a monarch, Lin Yunming thinks it is a metaphor for a "person who practices cleanliness", and Jiang Ji thinks it is a metaphor for a wise man. It can be seen that different commentators have different understandings of the meanings of "fragrant incense" and "fragrant grass". The image of "beauty" is generally interpreted as a metaphor, or as a monarch or a self. For example, there are two poems in Li Sao: "Only the grass and trees are scattered, and the beauty is afraid of withering. (metaphor for a king) "; "All women are jealous of jade Emei. They say jade is a good prostitute. (Self-metaphor) "(The couple's metaphor is vivid and conforms to China's traditional thinking habit) In addition, Lisao is full of various herbs as decoration, which supports and enriches the beautiful image. At the same time, the image of vanilla, as an independent symbol, refers to morality (in Lisao, it refers to the nobility of oneself or a king) and personality; On the other hand, it is opposite to evil grass and symbolizes both sides of political struggle. In a word, the image of vanilla beauty in Li Sao constitutes a complex and ingenious symbolic metaphor system, which makes the poem rich and vivid. Later generations say that Qu Yuan's arrogant personality and indomitable spirit of struggle are just like "vanilla beauty", which is still brilliant after thousands of years of precipitation.